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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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LIVE MIGRATION for all VSI!!

Every time we have to suffer VSI reboot. That massively impacts to our business. Why AWS/Azure/Google can then IBM cannot?
over 5 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Add leading zero to host numbering in IBM Cloud for VMware

The hostname numbering when creating a VCS cluster and adding hosts should be in format where the hostnames display with leading zeros for the number. For example, the first hostname should be esxi00, not esxi0. This allows the hostnames to be sor...
over 5 years ago in VMware Solutions 0 Delivered

Provide extended storage for SAP HANA bare metal servers to allow dual use as QA and DR

It is common cost saving architecture in large SAP HANA deployments to enable dual use of HANA systems and QA and DR.In this scenario the QA box is running in the DR DC and additionally receives the life data replication of the prod environment.So...
almost 6 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

Live migration of virtual servers

Host hardware failure on hosts are quite common and every time this happens, we shut down customers' virtual servers to do migration. This is very disruptive to customer's business. Another pain point is that in instances when we need to do mainte...
about 6 years ago in Virtual Servers 1 Delivered

Remove excessive pop up usage and dependence

Hello all, Problem/pain points: I've been a fan of Bluemix for the last 3 years and patiently been watching it evolve. Every couple of months I come by and try to make a virtual server or a baremetal and most of the times I fail. I started back in...
over 6 years ago in Compute 1 Delivered

Currently VMware Solutions on IBM Cloud do not support remove storage resource

Currenlty VMware solution only support order storage at the order time , but do not support add/remove extra storage after instance created.
about 7 years ago in VMware Solutions 1 Delivered

Fixed public IPs manageable by user

Because sometimes, a VMs fails, so generate a new one creates a new IP, but if IP of first IP was given in a CVs or link in a forum, then it fails because it goes to the first failing IP.
over 7 years ago in Virtual Servers 1 Delivered